11 Facts About Jo Vincent

Johanna Maria Vincent was a Dutch soprano who appeared mostly in oratorio and concert, and is internationally known.

Jo Vincent appeared regularly with Willem Mengelberg and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1924 to 1942, including annual concerts and a recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion.

Jo Vincent participated in the world premiere of Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony, with Kathleen Ferrier and Peter Pears.

Johanna Jo Vincent was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of the organist, piano teacher and carillonneur Jacob Jo Vincent, and Geertruida Johanna Meijer.

Jo Vincent studied to be a voice teacher, graduating with a diploma in 1919.

Jo Vincent gave singing lessons to pay for studying voice with Cornelie van Zanten.

Jo Vincent first appeared with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1923, conducted by Cornelis Dopper.

Jo Vincent focused on a repertoire of oratorio, especially Bach's Passions, and lieder by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gustav Mahler, Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf.

Jo Vincent appeared in the 1939 early recording of this Passion, which featured Karl Erb as the Evangelist, Willem Ravelli as the Vox Christi, and other soloists Ilona Durigo, Louis van Tulder and Hermann Schey.

Jo Vincent occasionally appeared internationally, such as in Paris in 1929, performing as Marguerite in La damnation de Faust by Berlioz, conducted by Pierre Monteux, in Vienna in 1932 where Mengelberg conducted Mahler's Fourth Symphony, and in Vienna in 1936 in Beethoven's Missa solemnis.

Jo Vincent retired in 1953, after which she gave occasional performances.